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I bring all of this up because you and your business needs to do the same. You must be a digital business. You must have a website (a mobile friendly one). You must start to build your following on social media. You must have a newsletter. You must start blogging. You must know about and implement SEO. You must network on LinkedIn.

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So, again, why should you be a digital company? Because your target market is using digital.

This advice is for entrepreneurs and business owners to not focus on the competition. You can only control what you can control and that’s not other people or your competitors. Focus on only beating yourself. The time you take to worry about the competition can be the difference between losing and winning.

“Fear is an emotion associated with anticipated pain. Former Art Of Charm coach Sameem Rouhani calls it “the discomfort of uncertainty.” It’s useful because we survived as a species by avoiding pain. But social fear in all its forms typically boils down to avoiding a particular type of pain—rejection. As early humans learned, being part of the group was advantageous for survival; being abandoned or rejected by the group meant hardship or death.

The reason the Harbingers’ work with social anxiety in dating maps well to business is because business is inherently social: You’re making things for people, selling things to people, and working with people to make all that happen. And rejection—whether from customers, supporters, partners, investors, colleagues, bosses, “the market,” you name it—almost always feels personal.”

Ways you can battle that fear

Collect Data (of successes)

Use the principle of progresssive overload (pushing yourself a little farther) in a safe environment

Hi, my name is Gresham (Gresh) and this is a business blog that I manage with a phenomenal team. I am the Blogger in Chief for CBNation and a media consultant for Blue 16 Media. Helping out business owners with website design and digital marketing. I hope you enjoy this blog. Contact me to set up a time to speak or let's meet for coffee (even though I rarely drink it). You can schedule a time on my calendar HERE. Find me on social media @progreshion.